Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The 12 Days of Christmas

A present suddenly showed up on our front porch on December 1. We opened it, and soon realized that someone was doing the 12 Days of Christmas for us. Gifts anonymously appeared every day for the next week and a half.

Now... Getting engaged and telling people is fun. Being married is awesome. Good luck in the seemingling endless hellhole that is wedding planning! Remember you can't make everyone happy, so just make sure the grooms are happy :)

I didn't think he was saying well done about the ring but about the proposal process in general. Which might still be peak gay. But now I need to know - Skylar - what was the "well done" comment in reference to????

This is a lie I was never in charge of planning it, I was assigned trash bag duty. You don't want a bitter divorcee planning a wedding, it would look more like a funeral but with better food and more booze.

If we keep joking about this, someone will actually get bored of tv and plan it for real. And people would really come. I’m not volunteering myself for planning purposes, because I just discovered Chinese dramas and it has opened a whole new world of tv to me (and I am almost fluent in Chinese now, too), but I am saying that if this joke stays alive, it will become real, like Pinocchio or something.

My aunt got married in Vegas (planned and on purpose, haha) and her venue had a live stream so I got to watch it all the way from Hawaii! And that was back in like 2009 which is basically the Stone Age compared to modern technology so there has to be better live streaming wedding technology now...right?! Someone should plan that because we know Eli can’t technology.

I am so happy! Congratulations and, seriously, that was quite the proposal! So well thought out. I was thinking, "dang, they have some friends that are willing to spend quite a bit of money on 12 gifts!" haha! And just like the previous poster said, the wedding planning absolutely needs to be about you two. It truly is a holy hell and you won't please everyone. Just remember to enjoy the day. So are all of us Strangers getting invites???? hee hee!

What a great way to raise my spirits on this Bleh-Wednesday! Congratulations Eli and Skylar! Skylar's reaction is so precious that I'll have to add this video to my list of happy videos whenever I need a happiness boost.

Also, I agree that this was WELL DONE! How were you able to keep it a secret from him?! Were there any close calls that almost ruined the surprise?

You know I've heard people complain before that Disney gave them too high of expectations about love in real life, but here you two are blowing Disney out of the water... and subsequently leaving those of us that are still single with increasingly high expectations

Now begins the battle of who will be Eli's Best Man/Woman. Top contenders are Jolyn Metro, Rebecca, Matt, Duncan, and G-Mac. "Many enter the ring...only one will leave! LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!" Man, please stream that online for all of us to watch!

Matt would immediately forfeit, claiming that he never cared in the first place. Duncan would run out of the ring because it's too crowded and he's severely claustrophobic. G-Mac would demand to the be the bride and would try to have me kicked out of the wedding altogether. Jolyn would release tear gas into the air. And Rebecca would show up a year late with a basket of berries that distracted her on her way to the event, which she planned to pass around, totally unaware that they are poisonous.